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I'm sure you've heard of the Conformal Decals mod. One of the decals is a Text bar (which can be set to Vertical as well). This decal can be used to easily name your shuttle fleet. I use it all the time to number my rockets.

I'd vote to wait a week to conclude your testing. I was going to post a bug report last night, but I've been resolving most of my own minor issues with 1.11 dev over time (Version Update October 12th). Such as the fuel change for the Able, Ablestar, and Juno engines. At first I couldn't figure out why my designs (Vanguard, anything with an AJ10) suddenly had zero thrust. Or why I can't even get Vanguard to orbit anymore (Aerozine is weak and I apparently cannot launch correctly). I also wanted to experiment with the Metholox Extras, but it gives a laundry list of errors and I removed them for now. I'm still getting B9 errors on startup about texture issues with some parts and color palette changes, but I presume these will be ironed out by release and/or they are from mod conflicts (because, I have a dozen part mods, the same as all of us! The error could be a coincidence and not from updating to 1.11 dev). It doesn't and didn't stop me from making Viking, Vanguard, and Jupiter-C rockets last night. Overall I look forward to playing with the new LEM configurations. Is that Skylab "LEM" @KeaKaka was using one of the new parts of something of his design? As always, thanks BDB Team for all your excellent work.

Quick question. I performed a search of this Topic for a bug/visual issue I reported back in April, which seems to have been lost in the excitement as this thread passed Page 1000. This is my original report: Version: Apollo-Saturn Revamp #1195 Possible bug report: Agena Liquid Fuel Tank Flag decal flickers. I pulled the latest version of the repo and found that all of my Agena B/D Liquid Fuel Tank flags are flickering. This behavior continues even when the game is paused. It seems to be related to the part itself as all of my existing Agenas on mission have this flickering as well as an Agena created in the VAB and then sent to the launch pad. Note that in the VAB or at certain camera angles zoomed very close in, the flag flickering does not appear or stops. Can anyone else corroborate this issue in the latest BDB version? I am still experiencing this issue as of the latest version available on SpaceDock (site appears to be down at the time of this post). I've tried playing with AA, reflection, and shading settings. I feel like it could be related to Scatterer, but surely many others use this mod. My current mitigation is to no longer use the provided flags and apply conformal decals on the tanks myself. If this is a one-off and effects only my game setup, please ignore.

Quick comment. I've always liked your flower petal design slant for solar panels/radiators. This was especially true for your HASDA designs and I'm glad to see it back.

Launch 46: KH-4 9007 / Jupiter Agena-D 1 (J35-AG12) Year 2, Day 19 - 0109 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF The seventh Air Force reconnaissance satellite was launched without any public announcement of any kind. This began the new normal for Project Corona, where launches were neither publicly acknowledged nor their payloads revealed. Referred to as Mission 9007, the second KH-4 completed its voyage into orbit using the improved and standardized Agena-D stage. Launch 47: Mercury 6 (Mercury-Atlas 4) / Atlas-D 8 (AL9) Year 2, Day 21 - 0015 Hours Mission: Manned spacecraft to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA Pushing the endurance record to one-day in space, the flight of Mercury 6 was the last for Project Mercury. Kerbonaut and spacecraft successfully returned to Kerbin safely, closing the first chapter in manned spaceflight. It had been proven that a kerbal could withstand the forces of riding a rocket into space, extended time in zero gravity, and the fires of re-entry. Launch 48: Relay 1 / Jupiter Delta 1 (J36-D1) Year 2, Day 34 - 0320 Hours Mission: Communications satellite to high Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY Launch 49: Transit 5A / Jupiter Delta 2 (J36-D2) Year 2, Day 45 - 0125 Hours Mission: Navigation satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSN The fifth Transit was the first of a series intended to be the final phase of test models for a standardized satellite design. 5A featured a new chassis, large extendable solar panels, an improved hoop shaped beacon, and most importantly a gravity boom which orientated the satellite to keep it facing Kerbin. Launch 50: Syncom 1 / Jupiter Delta 3 (J37-D3) Year 2, Day 54 - 0535 Hours Mission: Communication satellite to keosynchronous orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The Army's next communications satellite was the first launched into keosynchronous orbit. Telstar and Relay has shown the value in using satellites to relay transmissions across vast distances, but this was only possible while the satellite was overhead. The idea behind Syncom was to place a satellite at an altitude where it would always be available over a certain part of Kerbin. In the case of Syncom 1, this orbit would not end up being a fixed point in the sky due to its inclination. Syncom moved in a lazy figure-eight pattern north and south of the equator in an orbit roughly above Kerbal Space Center.

Version: Apollo-Saturn Revamp #1195 Possible bug report: Agena Liquid Fuel Tank Flag decal flickers. I pulled the latest version of the repo and found that all of my Agena B/D Liquid Fuel Tank flags are flickering. This behavior continues even when the game is paused. It seems to be related to the part itself as all of my existing Agenas on mission have this flickering as well as an Agena created in the VAB and then sent to the launch pad. Note that in the VAB or at certain camera angles zoomed very close in, the flag flickering does not appear or stops. Can anyone else corroborate this issue in the latest BDB version? Thanks for all your efforts, devs.

Launch 41: Discoverer 8 / Jupiter Agena-B 4 (J32-AG10) Year 1, Day 389 – 0339 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF Discoverer 8 would be the last publicly acknowledged launch related to Project Corona. Officially the payload was listed as "undisclosed" as the ruse of Project Discoverer had run its course. This launch was the first KH-4 satellite which featured dual stereoscopic cameras for increased image quality. Launch 42: Ranger 3 / Atlas-D Agena-B 3 (AL7-AG11) Year 1, Day 397 – 0450 Hours Mission: Science probe to impact Minmus. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY/KSN The third Ranger was the final of the Block 2 model; this one bound for distant Minmus. It provided the first close images of the terrain and transmitted data from its experiments up until it impacted the surface. Information from the seismic sensor showed that the Rough Lander survived landing and rolled for an extended period of time before coming to rest somewhere in the Midlands. Launch 43: ANNA 1 / Jupiter Able-Star 7 (J33-AS7) Year 1, Day 423 – 0007 Hours Mission: Science satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY ANNA was based on the Navy's Transit 3 satellite chassis. The primary purpose of the satellite was in the same vein as SECOR, but as a larger target. Both military and civilian agencies used the satellite, with its known orbit parameters, for calibration and keodesy. Launch 44: Mercury 5 (Mercury-Atlas 3) / Atlas-D 7 (AL8) Year 1, Day 424 – 0045 Hours Mission: Manned spacecraft to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA The third kerbal to ride into space would spend half-a-day there. Robert Carpenter Kerman would be the first to conduct science in space, capturing photographs with a camera and taking part in visual observation experiments from both land and sea as he passed overhead. Launch 45: Telstar 1 – Jupiter Able 9 (J34-AB12) Year 2, Day 13 – 0435 Hours Mission: Communications satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY Telstar was the first television relay satellite. It was capable of handling a trans-continental live television connection when overhead. It was also the first commercially developed satellite and was launched in partnership by the Army.

Launch 36: Discoverer 7 / Jupiter Agena-B 3 (J30-AG8) Year 1, Day 315 - 0302 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF Due to continued pressure from the science community for almost complete lack of data being returned by Project Discoverer, the seventh would ferry a biological exposure experiment into orbit. The experiment included Kerbal tissues and a vial of a liquid referred to as Mystery Goo. The flight performed nominally, returning both the official and unofficial contents safely back to Kerbin. Launch 37: Mercury 3 (Mercury-Atlas 1) / Atlas-D 3 (AL4) Year 1, Day 337 - 0528 Hours Mission: Technology Test spacecraft to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA Mercury 3 was an unmanned orbital proving flight. Its success paved the way for launching the first kerbal into orbit. Launch 38: TIROS 2 / Jupiter Able 8 (J31-AB11) Year 1, Day 342 - 0029 Hours Mission: Weather satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSN The Army continued to support its sister agency by handling the launching of TIROS 2 from Green Sands Proving Grounds in addition to their own satellite programs. This allowed the staff at Kerbal Space Center to focus on preparations for Mercury 4. Launch 39: Ranger 2 / Atlas-D Agena-B 2 (AL5-AG9) Year 1, Day 368 - 0430 Hours Mission: Science probe to impact the Mun. Location: Green Sands Proving Ground Agency: KSARMY/KSN Ranger 2 was the first space probe to both impact and land on another world. Prior to impact, science data was collected and transmitted. The camera was operated until the moment Ranger collided with the Mun, sending back poor quality images of the surface. The Rough Lander was released successfully and survived the landing, providing seismic data until its batteries expired. Launch 40: Mercury 4 (Mercury-Atlas 2) / Atlas-D 5 (AL6) Year 1, Day 376 - 0543 Hours Mission: Manned spacecraft to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA Valentina became the first kerbal to orbit Kerbin. Like Jebediah before her, exposure to zero gravity did not seem to affect her adversely. Valentina was also the first to eat and drink in space. Her safe return paved the way for future missions of longer durations. Orbit: 134km x 91km, 0 deg inclination. Mercury 4 splashed down in Booster Bay on Day 377. Payload: Mercury 4 "Freedom" - Crew: Valentina Kerman First kerbal in orbit. Performed three orbits for a mission time of 1 hour, 57 minutes.

Seconded. I am also getting these errors when I upgraded yesterday.

Chapter Two – On Atlas's Shoulders Launch 31: Explorer 10 / Jupiter Able 6 (J26-AB9) Year 1, Day 265 - 0321 Hours Mission: Science satellite to high elliptical Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY Following the "Topside Sounders" series, Explorer 10 was designed for long-term data collection on Kerbin's magnetosphere. Launch 32: Transit 4/Injun-1/SOLRAD-2 / Jupiter Able-Star 5 (J27-AS5) Year 1, Day 279 - 0419 Hours Mission: Navigation, Science, and ELINT satellites to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSN Transit 4 was the most advanced satellite yet developed by NRL. It featuring an improved beacon, solar panels, and a SNAP-3 radio isotope generator. Riding piggyback on this mission was Injun-1 atop which rode SOLRAD-2 for a the first trio of satellites orbited in one launch. Launch 33: OSO 1 / Jupiter Able 7 (J28-AB10) Year 1, Day 292 - 0404 Hours Mission: Science satellite to low Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The Orbiting Solar Observatory was specially designed to maintain its orientation focused on the Sun. Above Kerbin's atmosphere, OSO 1 collected data on solar radiation, x-rays, and gamma rays. Launch 34: Ranger 1 / Atlas-D Agena-B 2 (AL3-AG7) Year 1, Day 307 - 0104 Hours Mission: Science satellite to high Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSARMY/KSN Project Ranger was an Army/Navy collaboration for a series of space probes that would collect data about the surface of the Mun and Minmus. Of chief concern was the difficulty and surface conditions of both bodies in order to perform a landing upon them. The first Ranger was a fully instrumented satellite to prove the base design's reliability in orbit far from Kerbin. Launch 35: Composite 1 / Jupiter Able-Star 6 (J29-AS6) Year 1, Day 312 - 0530 Hours Mission: Science and ELINT satellites to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSN With the Navy's ground crew at Kerbal Space Center busy preparing to orbit the first kerbal on Mercury 3, the Army agreed to launch the Composite 1 mission from Green Sands. NRL would continue to push the limits of multiple small payloads by releasing four separate satellites as well as the ferrying stage into orbit. These included the third SOLRAD, second LOFTI and Injun, and SECOR which was used to as a beacon to plot precise ground coordinates (such as for islands or remote locations). The final "satellite", Surcal, was used as a detection target for the military's ground-based orbital detection network.

Launch 26: Explorer 8 / Jupiter Able 5 (J21-AB8) Year 1, Day 239 - 0317 Hours Mission: Science satellite to high elliptical Kerbin orbit Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The Explorer series continued with a satellite launched to the very reaches of Kerbin's sphere of influence in order collect data on Kerbin's magnetic field. Explorer 8 was also the first satellite to record the shock wave of a solar flare. Launch 27: Transit 3/LOFTI-1 / Jupiter Able-Star 4 (J22-AS4) Year 1, Day 247 - 0250 Hours Mission: Navigation and Science satellites to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSN With the success of the original pair of Transit satellites, Transit 3 was an attempt to improve the design with a stronger navigation beacon. Like its predecessor, it also carried a piggyback satellite into orbit called LOFTI. This diminutive satellite was able to detect how Very Low Frequency radio waves were affected by the Ionosphere. Launch 28: Explorer 9 / Juno II 7 (J23) Year 1, Day 249 - 0216 Hours Mission: Science satellite to high Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The ninth Explorer was the first Gamma ray telescope in orbit. The experiment's goal was to detect these energies and attempt to catalog their direction of origin. The launch was the final time the Army would call upon the Juno before relying instead on the Navy developed Able and Able-Star. Launch 29: Discoverer 6 / Jupiter Agena-B 1 (J24-AG6) Year 1, Day 256 - 0302 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF Discoverer 6 is notable for being the first launch of the improved Agena-B upper stage. It was otherwise a routine reconnaissance flight. Launch 30: Mercury 2 (Mercury-Jupiter 2) (J25) Year 1, Day 262 - 0434 Hours Mission: Manned spacecraft sub-orbital flight. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA The first kerbal in space was lofted into a sub-orbital flight above the twenty-fifth Jupiter booster of the space program. Jebediah Kerman experienced the violence of blast off, six minutes of zero gravity, and the fires of re-entry before splashing down safely in the ocean. He emerged from this ordeal as the world's most famous kerbonaut and a national hero. He was the first explorer to reach a higher frontier. Orbit: Highest altitude reached was 116.7km. Mercury 2 splashed down in the Korin Sea. Spacecraft: Mercury 2 "Morning Star" - Crew: Jebediah Kerman • First manned space flight and first kerbal in space. • Spent six minutes in zero gravity. • Travelled 581.9km downrange.

More feedback, based on Hexagon. (Design choice): The Hexagon mapping camera is the only camera in the KH series that can find anomalies and even then, only below 100km. By the Hexagon model, a player will have progressed through Corona, two Mural, and two Gambit designs. And even at finally arriving at "Big Bird", the Hexagon main camera can still not be used to find anomalies (SCANsat nor KerbNet). I feel if not by Gambit, that Hexagon should be feasible for my anomaly hunting desires. I also feel the mapping camera's maximum altitude is too low and should be 150km, which would make it usable throughout most of the range of Low Kerbin orbit. That said, aside from being unable to mount a second SRV on the KH-4A model (with the KH-4B you can, so this is a very minor nitpick), I am quite pleased to be able to design and launch so much of the spy satellite family, including my personal favorite with Strawman. Keep up the great work, devs!

Launch 21: Courier 1 / Jupiter Able-Star 3 (J16-AS3) Year 1, Day 186 - 0545 Hours Mission: Communications satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY In the wake of SCORE, the Army Signal Corps engineered a proper communications satellite to launch into orbit. Courier was the first satellite used for long distance communications from one ground station to another. Launch 22: Explorer 6 / Juno II 6 (J17) Year 1, Day 201 - 0523 Hours Mission: Science satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The second of the "Topside sounders", Explorer 6 mounted no solar panels in order to prevent their use from interfering with the collected data on the Ionosphere. Launch 23: Discoverer 5 / Jupiter Agena-A 5 (J18-AG5) Year 1, Day 214 - 0424 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF The fourth Corona satellite would be a "routine" one-day mission to capture images of foreign terrain and return them intact to Kerbin for processing. It was the first to feature the moderately improved KH-2 camera system. Launch 24: Explorer 7 / Juno II 7 (J19) Year 1, Day 218 - 0548 Hours Mission: Science satellite to high Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The final satellite of the "Topside sounders" series, Explorer 7 was launched into an elliptical orbit for a long duration study of the Ionosphere to determine its shape. Launch 25: Mercury 1 (Mercury-Jupiter 1) (J20) Year 1, Day 229 - 0455 Hours Mission: Technology Test spacecraft sub-orbital flight. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: ARPA Originally called Kerbal-In-Space, Project Mercury's mission was to put a kerbal in space and return them safely. Coordinated by ARPA, the program would use the Army's Jupiter rocket for the sub-orbital missions and the Air Force's Atlas for the orbital missions. Von Kerman's team took the lead on the project and worked closely with the Navy in producing the spacecraft and selecting the candidates who would fly into space. Aside from making the Atlas available and providing technical assistance, the Air Force's involvement was minimal. Mercury 1 was a proving flight of the sub-orbital mission profile. The spacecraft was successfully lofted and splashed down intact.

Thanks for all the effort that goes into this mod. Honestly, I don't think I'd play Kerbal anymore without it (over waiting for KSP2). Feedback: (Not a bug): Most (if not all) of the craft files for the Transit 5 series all have the probe facing "upside down". Now upside down is relative, but generally I consider the gravity boom of a Transit as "up" or "away from Kerbin". All the premade Transits are facing "down" at Kerbin. Is this a design choice? (For a satellite, this doesn't matter, but it does when the root part is Transit and your navball is upside down.) (Not a bug): All Saturn I craft files are obsolete. Aside from figuring out the proper fins, making one is easy. Plus, it looks GREAT! Bonus - Pegasus! (Maybe a bug): Poppy probes and the Beacon Explorer cannot transmit science without switching to partial transmission and running timewarp for an extended period of time. Especially in the case of Beacon Explorer, which can generate a fair amount of Science, is this intended behavior? (Maybe a bug): For the life of me I can't seem to place OSCAR on Agena B. I've seen conflicting statements on whether it stayed attached or detached in orbit and I can't seem to fit a satisfactory decoupler on Agena B either (unimportant). As a rider, I must be placing it in the wrong position because I cannot mount it without it "floating" there. Naturally Agena D has no such issue. (User error?): Unlike Titan, I cannot stick a conformal long horizontal decal on Atlas. It will not mount without cutting off before the lower tank. For whatever reason, I thought there was an Extra for this, but it either doesn't work or I'm doing it wrong. (Thankyou!): For the user warning on the OGO solar panel that if not deployed first, the RPW panel will break when used for science! Take care and happy developing!

Launch 16: Explorer 5 / Juno II 5 (J11) Year 1, Day 148 - 0135 Hours Mission: Scientific experiment satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSARMY The next series of Explorers were referred to as the "topside sounders". Their goal was the study Kerbin's ionosphere. Launch 17: TIROS 1 / Jupiter Able 4 (J12-AB7) Year 1, Day 161 - 0140 Hours Mission: Weather satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Green Sands Proving Grounds Agency: KSN/KSARMY In support of a Navy initiative for an orbital weather observation satellite, the Army handled the launching of TIROS 1. The returned cloud cover images instantly revolutionized weather reporting and forecasting. Launch 18: Transit 1 / Jupiter Able-Star 1 (J13-AS1) Year 1, Day 163 - 0000 Hours Mission: Navigation satellite to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSN NRL's next major project was the launching of the first of two Transit satellites. This satellite would act a radio beacon to aide in navigation and location finding for naval ships and submarines at sea. The launch featured the first use of the Able-Star second stage. Among its improvements was the ability to restart the engine in orbit. This became a major factor in stemming the growing amount of orbital debris around Kerbin as the stage could de-orbit itself after deploying the satellite. Launch 19: Transit 2/SOLRAD-1 / Jupiter Able-Star 2 (J14-AS2) Year 1, Day 177 - 0300 Hours Mission: Navigation and ELINT satellites to medium Kerbin orbit. Location: Kerbal Space Center Agency: KSN Transit 1 was followed quickly by Transit 2 in order to better test the feasibility of an orbital (military) navigation system. The launch was the first to include a piggyback payload with SOLRAD riding on top of Transit and separating once in orbit. SOLRAD itself represented the Navy's first "spy" satellite. Launch 20: Discoverer 4 / Jupiter Agena-A 4 (J15-AG4) Year 1, Day 183 - 0237 Hours Mission: Reconnaissance satellite to low Kerbin orbit and return. Location: Woomerang Launch Site Agency: KSAF The fourth Discoverer included a small biological exposure experiment in the SRV in order to continue the ruse of the program's purpose. These samples were carried into orbit and returned along with the reconnaissance film.